Episode 474: I Hate the Idea of Firing a Low Performer and Cheaper Context Switching
July 2023
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Not sure if anything changed my approach to work and engineering in the past five years more than this passage from @Lethain, written in the context of staff engineering but much more broadly applicable.
Been in Monk mode and missed the MCP and Manus TL barrage. i am averaging about 10k LoC a day per project on 3 projects simultaneously and id say 90% no slop. when slop happens i have to go in an deslop by hand / completely rewrite but so far its a reasonable tradeoff. this is still so wild to me that this works at all. this is also the first time ... See more
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